વીર ભૂમિ ગુજરાતની
Whenever we talk about bravery and heroes that time Punjab, Rajasthan, Maharashtra's name first of comes in our mind.When it comes to keeping Vedic systems of knowledge alive, South India The kingdoms come first before our eyes.Same if we talk about folk dance then Gujarat and Rajasthan's,jhankar palys in our mind, And if we talk about music, then the music of Bengal fills our mind.But when If it is a matter of art, dance, literature, music and bravery, then any state of India is no less than any other state.
But then why this happens, the image of any one state remains in our mind.The reason for this is popular media and a popular image of culture created by that popular media.Television and films come in this popular media.And if India is to be known and understood, then it cannot be understood without listening to folk tales.
Gujarat is the land of Lord Krishna.Gujrat is also famous for ગાંઠિયા/ફાફડા,ઢોકળા/ખમણ,ઉંધીયું,etc.Also famous for garba and dandiya.Gujarat's land of bravery in Punjab,No less than Rajasthan and Maharashtra.Many brave sons of Mother India have been born from this holy land. તો જાણીએ ગુજરાત ના વીર ની ગાથા જે લોક કથા બની છે તો ચાલો....
Two men on a camel were going from Dholka to a village by an unpaved road.Dholka is an ancient city of Gujarat which is situated in Ahmedabad, the ancient name of this Dholka is matsya nagar.This is the same Matasta city whose prince was Kichak and the same Kichak was killed by Bhima with his own hands in the Mahabharata.
They both people reached the village by the time it was night.They stops camel there,in both of them one is the owner of camel and second is passenger. When the owner tie camel with the tree he saw the passenger is coverd with cloth,the traveler was dressed like a warrior.There was a dagger on one side of his waist and a sword on the other.And that traveler was going towards the village at a high speed.Seeing that village, his steps suddenly stopped,dilapidated huts,He also saw the broken Shiva temple, but when he saw the burning lamp in the broken Shiva temple, he got a hope.His steps started again.
He stopped near a house He went behind a nearby tree and fell silent and kept looking at that house.It was night, it was dark, the house was not clearly visible, but the courtyard of the house was visible,And in that courtyard the stove was burning and millet bread was burning in it.He moved a little further under the cover of darkness,Half of the face of the woman who was baking millet bread was now clearly visible to him.He wanted to call the woman who was completely in his mind, she was his wife whom he was seeing for a while.
Then he heard the sound of the horse, he went to a corner and kept quiet.from that horse A man alighted and entered the house calling for Veeru, the woman said, let Veeru live, you can eat,It is getting late.The man said, you know that I cannot eat without Veeru, go and call Veeru.Then we all eat together. That passenger see all the things, hee had tears in his eyes.He was going to go home when he heard the sound of the sword hitting the wall, got down from the horse, came out and saw.The man moved towards the voice.
The man told the passenger to remove the cloth from your mouth.While removing the clothes the passenger said devraj patil you will not be able to recognize the face of the wound of the war.Suddenly, while choking, Devraj said, Lavaan, you are Lavaan,he said i am I came to kill you but seeing your behavior i will not let you die. It's late, have dinner.passenger ate food with lot of precious previous memories.After dinner they both came out Lavan Said to Devraj, we have lost patan, Qutubuddin Aibak has wreaked havoc everywhere,Village after village has been destroyed, kinghas also attained martyrdom And I'm going to rally my army again, if I win, you'll know about it, when veeru grows up send it to me To repay the debt of the motherland.He went ahead with Devraj's horse and he rode off.
After some time devraj listen good news that from patan and dholka Qutubuddin is gone.Vaghela's is ruling And Vaghela was the commander of the ruling line Daring Lavan Prasad.This folk tale informing us about Gujarat's daring warrior, But it also inform us about that time situation of society This tells that at that time I was a free-spirited woman,and men respected them.We always listen that India is patriarchal society and in multiple of States, cities and villages this type of rules we have but if we raise voice then we will be able to change it and we also can able to make a society where man and woman both are equal.
